17 December 2022

Thematic Focus: Human Trafficking & Smuggling

Blog posts & press:

International Migrants Day: Why UNODC combats migrant smugglers (UNODC, Dec. 2022) [text]

Overcoming Barriers to Preventing the Human Trafficking of Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Greece (Border Criminologies Blog, Dec. 2022) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

Access Denied: Barriers to Legal Protection for Immigrant Survivors of Human Trafficking (Boston Univ., Dec. 2022) [text]
- Focuses on the US.

Conflict in Ukraine: Key Evidence on Risks of Trafficking in Persons and Smuggling of Migrants (UNODC, updated Aug. 2022) [text]

"Increased Vulnerability to Human Trafficking of Migrants during the COVID-19 Pandemic in the IGAD–North Africa Region," Chapter in The Impacts of COVID-19 on Migration and Migrants from a Gender Perspective (IOM, May 2022) [text]
- Scroll to p. 145

Joint Paper on the Occasion of the 20th Anniversary of the Bali Process (UNHCR, IOM & UNODC, Dec. 2022) [text]
- Focuses on Southeast Asia. See also related press release.

Labour in Limbo: Bridging Visa E holders and Modern Slavery Risk in Australia (Human Rights Law Centre, Nov. 2022) [text]

"Modern Slavery and Migrant Smuggling: A Sustainable Development Perspective," Cuadernos Europeos de Deusto, no. 6 (2022) [open access]

"Not a single safe place": The Ukrainian refugees at risk of violence, trafficking and exploitation - Findings from Poland and Ukraine (Univ. of Birmingham, Nov. 2022) [text]
- See also related news release.

"Questions of intent: Where mixed migration and human trafficking overlap," Essay in Mixed Migration Review 2022 (Mixed Migration Centre, 2022) [text]
- Scroll to p. 179.

Report of the Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children, Siobhán Mullally: Addressing the gender dimensions of trafficking in persons in the context of climate change, displacement and disaster risk reduction, UN Doc. No. A/77/170 (UN General Assembly, July 2022) [access]
- Follow link for report in six languages.

"Ripples of risk: How the hardening of migration policies and social attitudes in Peru increases refugees’ and migrants’ vulnerability at the hands of smugglers and traffickers," Essay in Mixed Migration Review 2022 (Mixed Migration Centre, 2022) [text]
- Scroll to p. 121.

The role of smugglers in Afghans’ irregular journeys to Türkiye (Mixed Migration Centre, Oct. 2022) [text]

*Tipping Points to Turning Points: How can programmes and policies better respond to the risks of child trafficking and exploitation on the Central Mediterranean Route? (Save the Children & Samuel Hall, Dec. 2022) [text]
- See also related blog post.

"War, Displacement, and Human Trafficking and Exploitation: Findings from an evidence-gathering Roundtable in Response to the War in Ukraine," Journal of Human Trafficking, Latest Articles, 12 Oct. 2022 [open access]

"The war of words in the politicisation of human smuggling," Essay in Mixed Migration Review 2022 (Mixed Migration Centre, 2022) [text]
- Scroll to p. 144.

A World in Crisis: Global Humanitarian Crises and Conflicts Increase Human Trafficking Concerns - Call to Action (Inter-Agency Coordination Group Against Trafficking in Persons, Dec. 2022) [access]

Multimedia:

Human smuggling or human trafficking? Why the difference matters (Borders & Belonging Podcast, Nov. 2022) [access]

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